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Issue: Vol. 3346 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3346.1.3
Page range: 43–50
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 3

Three new species of the genus Laena Dejean from China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae)

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, P. R. China
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Lagriinae Laena new species China

Abstract

Three new species of Laena Dejean: L. bidentata sp. nov. and L. exjuncta sp. nov. (CHINA: Sichuan), and L. flectotibia sp.nov. (CHINA: Yunnan), are described. Photos of the habitus and aedeagi, with illustrations of legs, antennae, and ventrites of the male and female are provided.

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